# Amazon Nova Micro vs Gemini 3 Pro

> Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-micro-vs-gemini-3-pro
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 24

## Summary

- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3 Pro in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 52.5 to 17.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 22.3% for Amazon Nova Micro and 72.5% for Gemini 3 Pro.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 3 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Google |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 54.8 |
| Rank | 294 | 28 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.035 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.14 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295)
- Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 3 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1481 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 72.9% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 74.2% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1440 |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 68.7% |
| GSO | — | 18.6% |
| WeirdML | — | 69.9% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,177 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.83 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132)
- Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 3 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | 72.5% |
| Terminal-Bench | — | 69.4% |
| GDPval | — | 40.3% |
| Remote Labor Index | — | 1.3% |
| τ²-bench Airline | — | 80.5% |
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 18% |
| τ²-bench Retail | — | 75.9% |
| τ²-bench Telecom | — | 91% |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 46.3% |
| BALROG | — | 58.1% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1207 |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 71% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 5,478 |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294)
- Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 3 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1480 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 31.1% |
| SimpleBench | — | 76.4% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 80.1% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 94.4% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 75% |
| CritPt | — | 6.9% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 31% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 18.2% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 152.92 |
| ForecastBench | — | 61.2 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254)
- Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 3 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | 55.5% |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1476 |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 67% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 91.4% |
| ProofBench | — | 20% |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 37.6% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 18.8% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237)
- Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 3 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | 90.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | 13.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | 80.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1475 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 92.6% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 37.5% |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Micro: —
- Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 3 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1305 |
| GeoBench | — | 84% |
| VPCT | — | 91% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1434 |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239)
- Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 3 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1474 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1523 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1492 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1515 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1510 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1448 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1493 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1470 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272)
- Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 3 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 76% | 87.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1458 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229)
- Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 3 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1471 |
| CL-bench | — | 15.8% |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247)
- Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Gemini 3 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1479 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1482 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | 85.9% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1484 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1525 |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Gemini 3 Pro?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Amazon Nova Micro or Gemini 3 Pro better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Gemini 3 Pro share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3 Pro has 67.